Democratic caucusgoers in Nevada stood in line for more than three hours at one early voting precinct Saturday, according to people at the front of the line. The precinct — Palo Verde High School in Las Vegas — had six volunteers present as of 5 p.m., ET. One volunteer, who did not want to be
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A Manhattan developer must lop off floors from its Upper West Side construction project, a New York Supreme Court judge ruled Thursday. The 55-story building would have towered over a busy residential and commercial neighborhood close to Lincoln Center and Central Park. The building currently under construction stands at 668 feet and 51 stories, according
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EL PASO, Texas – With more than 1,000 runners from outside the borderland set to run in Sunday’s El Paso Marathon, businesses are taking advantage of the economic boost. More than 4,000 runners are going to hit the pavement Sunday morning for the 14th year in a row. About 30 percent of them from out
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – After forming a lasting bond with a hospital nurse, a Las Cruces teen fulfilled his lifelong dream of flying in a helicopter on Saturday morning. “I was expecting the greatest time of my life,” said Sebastian Teran. Three years ago, Teran lost his brother, who served at Ft. Wainwright in
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The MVP award for the NBA All-Star Game is now the Kobe Bryant MVP Award, according to an announcement by Commissioner Adam Silver on Saturday. “Kobe Bryant is synonymous with NBA All-Star and embodies the spirit of this global celebration of our game,” Silver said. “He always relished the opportunity to compete with the best
Continue Reading When Sen. Elizabeth Warren hopped on her press bus in Las Vegas Saturday, the national reporters who had covered her for months were nowhere to be seen. Instead, there were just five network embeds — a sign of how much her political stature has suddenly fallen after a disappointing showing in Iowa and New Hampshire.
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As grand marshal for the Daytona 500 on Sunday, President Donald Trump is set to kick off NASCAR’s biggest race by saying, “drivers, start your engines.” The President is also expected to make remarks before the race at the Daytona International Speedway in Florida, a source familiar told CNN. The move adds to his growing
Continue Reading 2020 Democratic hopefuls Amy Klobuchar and Tom Steyer both couldn’t name the president of Mexico when asked during a Telemundo interview while campaigning in Nevada this week. “I forget,” Steyer said when asked. Klobuchar offered a simple “no” in response. Former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg was the only one of the three candidates
Continue Reading The Iowa Democratic Party announced that state Rep. Mark Smith will lead the party after the former chairman resigned earlier this month amid an unprecedented and embarrassing delay in results from the state’s caucuses. Smith, who won the role by a majority vote of the IDP State Central Committee Saturday, said in a statement he
Continue Reading Nav Bhatia hasn’t missed a Toronto Raptors game ever since he started attending games in 1995. Now, the Raptors superfan will be forever memorialized in the new gallery at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, according to an announcement by Hall of Fame chairman Jerry Colangelo Friday during the start of NBA All-Star Weekend
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BEIJING (AP) — Real estate agent Du Xuekun’s sales usually jump after the Lunar New Year holiday. But this year, Du has been at home for a month with no income after vast swathes of China’s economy were shut down in a sweeping effort to contain a virus outbreak. Du, who lives in Jiaozhuo, near
Continue Reading Nearly 24 years after the death of 23-year-old Shawn Marie Neal, police in South Carolina say they have identified the man who killed her using newly discovered DNA evidence. Ronald Lee Moore, a suspected serial burglar from Baltimore County, Maryland, has been identified as Neal’s killer, according to the North Myrtle Beach police. Moore committed
Continue Reading More neighborhoods in Jackson, Mississippi were starting to flood Saturday as the swollen Pearl River may soon reach its highest point in decades, city officials said. Authorities urged people in mandatory evacuation zones in Mississippi’s capital to leave their homes or ask for help evacuating. “Please, please get out before dark tonight,” Gov. Tate Reeves
Continue Reading Former President Barack Obama on Saturday offered an emotional tribute to NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter who died in a helicopter crash last month, asserting that “nothing is more heartbreaking” as a parent himself. Speaking at the NBA All-Star Weekend Newsmaker Brunch, Obama struck a somber tone addressing not only the death
Continue Reading A 12-year-old girl was found unharmed and her grandmother, who allegedly took the child from a hospital at gunpoint, has been arrested, police in Louisiana said on Saturday night. Evelyn Miller, 66, was arrested just before 5 p.m. by the Washington Parish Sheriff’s Office at a hotel in Bogalusa, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office said
Continue Reading A 14-year-old boy has been arrested in the stabbing death of Barnard College freshman Tessa Majors, police and prosecutors said Saturday. The boy has been indicted on two counts of murder in the second degree — one for intentional murder, the other for felony murder committed during a robbery, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance told
Continue Reading A third member of an Oklahoma high school track and cross-country team died Saturday, about a week after a pickup truck hit six team members who’d just started a practice run. Moore Public Schools confirmed the death of senior Kolby Crum on its Facebook page. Kolby’s family released a statement through the school district. “He
Continue Reading After touting Keegan-Michael Key‘s support for Pete Buttigieg, the campaign told CNN later Saturday that the actor will now appear at the Buttigieg campaign events simply to encourage early voting and voter registration — not officially endorse the former South Bend, Indiana, mayor as the Democratic candidate for president. “Keegan-Michael Key will be attending events
Continue Reading A Virginia teen was arrested in North Carolina on Saturday on suspicion of killing his mother and 6-year-old brother, authorities said. The sheriff’s office of Fauquier County in Northern Virginia said the 17-year-old boy shot and wounded his father Friday evening and the man called authorities from his home in Midland. The father said his
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(CNN Español) — Al menos 6 ecuatorianos murieron y otras 37 personas resultaron heridas en un accidente de tránsito en el distrito Los Órganos, departamento de Piura, ubicado al noroeste de Perú, según dio a conocer este sábado la policía nacional de ese país. Sin dar detalles sobre lo ocurrido o las nacionalidades de los
Continue Reading House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended her decision to rip up President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address earlier this month, a dramatic move that was criticized by Republicans as being disrespectful and a “breach of decorum.” “One of my disappointments is the fact that with all that we have done legislatively, whether its equal
Continue Reading Google is honoring a key leader of the women’s suffrage movement, Susan B. Anthony, and celebrating her 200th birthday with a Google Doodle. Anthony worked tirelessly for voting rights for women, but died 14 years before the 19th Amendment — later known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment — was ratified. Anthony was one of
Continue Reading Anyone who’s been to high school knows how dreadful Valentine’s Day can be for teenagers. Those with admirers or significant others will get love notes, flowers and chocolates delivered to them in class or secretly in their lockers. But for everyone else, it can be downright heartbreaking. A Texas student didn’t want any of the
Continue Reading President Donald Trump on Saturday night will headline the most expensive fundraiser of his presidency at the Palm Beach, Florida, home of billionaire Nelson Peltz, two Republicans familiar with the event said. About 40 attendees are expected to join the President at the exclusive event after doling out more than a half-million dollars per couple,
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Click here for updates on this story SHREVEPORT, LA (KTBS ) — Heart disease often starts with diabetes. That’s something Army Airborne veteran Bobby Sterling knows all about. Sterling comes from a military family. His father was a Marine and later served in the Air Force for 28 years. Heart disease took his father’s life.
Continue Reading PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Relatives of 15 children killed in a fire at an orphanage continued to show up outside the burned-out compound Saturday seeking news about their missing kids. The gates to the two-story, walled compound were shut and guards shooed away visitors and journalists asking for information and access to the building. Eighty-year-old
Continue Reading A South Florida man is in police custody after he attacked and severely injured his 10-year-old daughter and her teenage sister with a machete, police said. Dennis Reid, 47, on Friday cut the girls with a machete at a home in Lauderhill after arriving there earlier in the morning to care for them, Lauderhill police
Continue Reading A Northrop Grumman rocket carrying the Cygnus resupply spacecraft was successfully launched Saturday afternoon from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The spacecraft is carrying more than 7,500 pounds of supplies and experiments to the International Space Station. The resupply aircraft is scheduled to arrive at the space station around 4:05 a.m. on Tuesday. NASA
Continue Reading ‘Sex and the City’ actress Lynn Cohen died on Friday in New York, according to her manager Josh Pultz. She was 86. The veteran screen and stage actress was best known for her role as Magda the housekeeper in the popular HBO series. She appeared in 13 episodes between 2000 and 2004 and reprised her
Continue Reading Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Saturday said the US has not yet fully set a date for when it will begin a period of reduction in violence negotiated with the Taliban. “That is a moving date because we are still doing consultations if you will … yesterday Secretary (of State Mike) Pompeo and I met
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